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Neil writes: This photo of the Alley Spring Mill on the Jacks Fork River, a tributary of the Current River near Eminence, Missouri, was taken early on an April morning [2007], when we were aloneContinue reading

Housman And The Ex A perceptive Ex once gave me an especially gratifying gift – Housman’s Last Poems, a copy of which was already in my library. The book she presented me, however, was anContinue reading

The Michael Reese Hospital Legacy The long anticipated demise of Michael Reese Hospital, a stellar healthcare institution and a linchpin of Chicago’s South Side throughout most of the 20th Century, has become a certainty. (Note:Continue reading

Subs Say The Funniest Things You know how it goes. You’re attending that excruciatingly dull, semi-obligatory neighborhood party, sipping on that not-quite-premier brand scotch and checking your watch every six minutes to calculate the pointContinue reading